Mark Mckenna
Director Of Client Engineering at REDspace Inc.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Mckenna is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of hands-on experience in C++, Java, Android, and Kotlin, currently serving as Director of Client Engineering at REDspace in Halifax. He combines deep expertise in full-stack and cloud architecture with practical experience building event-driven, concurrent, and distributed systems across mobile and backend platforms. Mark progressed through technical and leadership roles at REDspace—from Android Team Lead to Solutions Architect to Director—demonstrating a strong track record of scaling teams and delivery processes. Comfortable across the agile lifecycle, he pairs architecture-level thinking with day-to-day implementation fluency in data storage and cloud services. His academic background spans computer science, software engineering and philosophy from Dalhousie, which informs a pragmatic yet reflective approach to engineering tradeoffs. Colleagues know him for translating complex distributed challenges into maintainable, production-ready solutions while keeping developer experience and product goals aligned.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MACS, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Philosophy, MACS, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Philosophy at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (45)
npm-cli10
javascript9
deploying9
npm9
nodejs9
player9
google-inbox9
package-manager8
exoplayer8
extensible8
kotlin8
deep-learning8
media-player8
gmail8
typescript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
markmckenna/dotfiles
May 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:52 pushes in 5 years 4 months
sensiblewindowsosxlinuxos-x
markmckenna/lib-kotlin
Sep 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 7 months
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